Welcome to SSA
University of Chicago Crime Lab
The University of Chicago Crime Lab and non-profit organizations team up to reduce youth gun violence and improve school outcomes in Chicago.
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Jeanne C. Marsh: A legacy of success
Dean Marsh will step down as dean in 2010, but her enormous influence on the continued success and momentum of SSA will be felt for decades to come. “At 100 years, SSA is in excellent shape, and I’m enormously proud to have been able to be a part of the faculty, staff, students, alumni, friends and supporters who have made that possible,” says Marsh.
SSA Dean Search
Jeanne C. Marsh, Dean and George Herbert Jones Distinguished Service Professor, will complete her term as Dean on June 30, 2010. The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration has begun a comprehensive and international search for her replacement.
SSA Magazine: Weaving a Better Net
Associate Professor Scott W. Allard discusses how debate about policy responses to the current recession offers an opportunity to reflect upon how the safety net helps low income Americans and how we might strengthen it....
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Read the current SSA Magazine here
- In Treatment, featuring Dean Jeanne C. Marsh
- Elder Statesmen, featuring Assistant Professor Malitta Engstrom
- Giving in Hard Times, featuring Assistant Professor Jennifer Mosley
- A Community Under Construction, featuring Associate Professor Robert Chaskin
- Don't Run: Conversation, featuring Assistant Professor Gina Miranda Samuels
SSA Magazine: Add the Dad
Fatherhood initiatives are exploring how to bring more men into family social services. Assistant Professor Jennifer Bellamy discusses these efforts and more in this article.
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SSA Magazine: Get Well Soon
Does parents' low-wage work impact children's health? Assistant Professor Heather D. Hill discusses this question in this article.
William Borden: New Book
Senior Lecturer William Borden’s new collection of essays, Reshaping Theory in Contemporary Social Work: Toward a Critical Pluralism in Clinical Practice, reaffirms the place of theory in social work practice, showing how different theoretical models, therapeutic languages, and modes of intervention strengthen integrative approaches to intervention.
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Student Spotlight: The Next Generation
Amzie Moore follows in the footsteps of his father, a leading light in the fight for civil rights...
Alumni Spotlight: A Person in Context
As Jonathan Wildt finds his place in the world of international social work, he provides a social work perspective in Darfur
CHICAGO CONTRIBUTES: "Access After Health Care Reform" and "The Role of Higher Education in Improving Urban Schools"
The University of Chicago hosted "Chicago Contributes," in Washington, D.C. -- a day-long dialogue on federal and local efforts to expand access to health care and improve student performance in urban schools. President Robert J. Zimmer hosted the events, which featured keynote speeches from U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and U.S. Department of Education Secretary and former SSA Visiting Committee member Arne Duncan, and panels with Tim Knowles, Director of the Urban Education Institute and Charles Payne, Frank P. Hixon Professor, SSA.
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Professional Development Program
Upcoming workshops include:
November 20, 2009:
- Surviving Suicide: Moving Beyond the Trauma
- Video Scrapbooking: Supporting the Relationship Between Parents and Young Children
2010 Winter/Spring Series Schedule
Announced online January 4, 2010
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For Prospective Students
We invite Prospective Students to learn more about the School of Social Service Administration: program options, degree requirements, the application process, financial aid, and our new 15-month Accelerated Program and BA/MA Program. Please contact Mary Debose at 773-834-8104 or 1-866-213-6794.
NOTE APPLICATION DEADLINES: The first Application deadline for the AM program is December 1, 2009. And the deadline for the PhD program application is December 15, 2009. Apply here.
View all Admissions and application information
Newsroom
SSA News and Media Appearances
The most current media placements about SSA, our faculty and their research, alumni, and students.
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Current Student News
Harris School Women in Public Policy/American Red Cross Blood Drive
Monday, November 23, 11:00 am-4:00 pm
Harris School of Public Policy, Quiet Study Area
You may chedule your appointment online. Please click here and enter the sponsor code 3549. Or call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE (1-800-448-3543) to schedule your blood donation appointment.
All students, faculty, staff, and friends are invited to donate or may volunteer for sign-in/logistics. Contact Megan Milliken, mmilliken@uchicago.edu for information about one-to-two hour shifts.
OUTreach's QUEERgiving potluck
Monday, November 23, 7 pm, 5710 S. Woodlawn
Everyone is welcome regardless of gender, sexual orientation or any other characteristic. Please email Lucy R. Andich at lucya618@yahoo.com to sign up to bring food
Sneak Peak into the Second-Year Field Placement Process
Monday, November 23rd, 12:15 – 1:00 pm, SSA Lobby
Learn how to begin thinking about your 2nd year field placement and how to access the field placement data base to view approved field placements; Use resources within and outside SSA to explore your options
Thanksgiving Hours
SSA building and all departments will be open during regular business hours on:
Wednesday, November 25th
Closed on:
Thursday, November 26th
Friday, November 27th
Open Regular Hours on:
Saturday, November 28th
Building, Computer Lab: 10:00 – 5:00
Library: Noon – 5:00
Sunday, November 29th
Building, Computer Lab, Noon – 5:00
Library, Noon – 5:00
Michael Davis Seminars
All seminars are from 12:00-1:30 pm in Room W-IV
Thursday, December 3
Professor of Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco
"Policy issues related to addressing chronic pain, in particular opioid prescribing, and prescription drug abuse"
